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New Delhi : The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday partnered with hospitality company Airbnb to create livelihood opportunities for women in the northeast region as a step towards their empowerment. The partnership under NCW’s capacity building cell – ...

By Umer Rashid, Hardoi (Uttar Pradesh) : Inside a dimly-lit classroom in this district, with its walls decorated with drawings and paintings made by children, Seema Yadav, 36, is teaching a group of 25 girls who are sitting in a ...

Mumbai : From winning awards without attending award shows to bringing a new wave in the business of Indian cinema, actor-filmmaker Aamir Khan not only broke all the rules to establish his stardom over the last 30 years but also ...

By Mohammed Shafeeq, Hyderabad : Homeless beggars, ragpickers and labourers sitting with plates on a mat are waiting under a flyover. As the clock strikes 12.30 pm, a slim man appears on the scene and starts serving hot rice and ...

By Milinda Ghosh Roy, Kolkata : With no cutting-edge medical equipment, air-conditioning or critical care unit in place, the under-construction building in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district hardly matches the popular notion of a modern medical care facility. Yet, ...

By Vishnu Makhijani, New Delhi : Comedy is gaining a lot of momentum in India and the challenge lies in monetising this space, says comedian-entrepreneur Adnan Nalwala, adding that comedians in this country need to come out of their “local” ...

By Saket Suman, New Delhi : There has been, in recent times, a great churning in what can be called India’s “cultural space”. Public institutions, hitherto custodians of all things “cultural”, have been eclipsed by the rise of new-age festivals ...

By Jaideep Sarin, Amritsar (Punjab) : If there is one big leveller for people, irrespective of their religion, caste, gender, social status or riches, it is the “langar”, or community kitchen, at the Golden Temple complex, where the holiest of ...

Mumbai : Three Indians, including Reliance Industries (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani and human rights lawyer Indira Jaising, feature in Fortune magazine as the 50 Greatest Leaders of 2018, released on Thursday. Architect Balkrishna Doshi is the third Indian in the ...

By Sirshendu Panth, Kolkata : Setting up of a Groundwater Mission can help develop an action plan for tackling problems like arsenic and fluoride pollution, storage anomalies and the alarming dwindling of freshwater resources that plague the South Asian region, ...